Like Hong Kong, Taiwan will rejoin the rest of China. We want to believe that Taiwan is some bastion of freedom, but it’s literally just a holdout for the losers of China’s civil war. For a while the US tried to pretend that Taiwan was the real China, but eventually changed tact and has been trying to drive a wedge and use Taiwan as a military outpost. This has been US policy since the 1950s! (Most people in the US weren’t even born yet, and Joe Biden was only 7 years old when the Chinese civil war ended.)
This would be the equivalent of the Confederacy setting up shop in Puerto Rico and Russia supporting them as the “real” United States, then back-peddling while planning to use Puerto Rico as a military outpost. In the 1960s a similar situation happened when the Soviets tried to station nukes in Cuba and the US threatened to end the world.
Just like the US couldn’t be threatened, China can’t be threatened. You can’t hold a country of 1.5 billion people at gunpoint. You can’t destroy the 3 Gorges Dam without China nuking the US. The US needs to pull back on this position they’ve had since the 1950s and stop trying to bully China.
...doesn't China have a "no first strike" rule for their nuclear weapons? :P
As for not bullying China...maybe they should stop trying to bully their neighbors before asking to not be bullied lol
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Both China and Taiwan have claimed that they are the rulers of China and only one of them is right. For Taiwan to be a neighbor it would have to cease being Chinese, which it has never done. Taiwan is still officially “The Republic of China.”
Taiwan continues to keep the name because it mustn't give China a cassus belli to invade. Essentially, by keeping their name, they show their support for a "one china policy" and keep the door open to peaceful reunification. If Taiwan decided to formally be a separate thing, the PRC would no longer be able to "peacefully reunify with a rebellious province," and would be much likelier to invade.
(I don't care for Reuters, but the facts are easily verifiable elsewhere)
The PRC got pissy when Taiwan changed its passports to read "TAIWAN" in big letters and have "Republic of China" in small letters. What purpose would they have in being mad about a name change on a foreign nation's passport (particularly as it de-emphasizes the "China" bit)?
Furthermore, if you look into history, Taiwan got rid of its claims to "all of China" decades ago
In Europe there are two states, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, coexisting just fine (there's also Switzerland, no government of which ever pretended to be the unifying center of Germany).
That's just a counterexample to shoot down your bullshit without many words.
I like seeing other sides like this.
Feels like posts like yours would be removed on reddit because of how infested that site is with propagandists just supporting their agenda.
Like Hong Kong, Taiwan will rejoin the rest of China. We want to believe that Taiwan is some bastion of freedom, but it’s literally just a holdout for the losers of China’s civil war. For a while the US tried to pretend that Taiwan was the real China, but eventually changed tact and has been trying to drive a wedge and use Taiwan as a military outpost. This has been US policy since the 1950s! (Most people in the US weren’t even born yet, and Joe Biden was only 7 years old when the Chinese civil war ended.)
This would be the equivalent of the Confederacy setting up shop in Puerto Rico and Russia supporting them as the “real” United States, then back-peddling while planning to use Puerto Rico as a military outpost. In the 1960s a similar situation happened when the Soviets tried to station nukes in Cuba and the US threatened to end the world.
Just like the US couldn’t be threatened, China can’t be threatened. You can’t hold a country of 1.5 billion people at gunpoint. You can’t destroy the 3 Gorges Dam without China nuking the US. The US needs to pull back on this position they’ve had since the 1950s and stop trying to bully China.
...doesn't China have a "no first strike" rule for their nuclear weapons? :P
As for not bullying China...maybe they should stop trying to bully their neighbors before asking to not be bullied lol
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Both China and Taiwan have claimed that they are the rulers of China and only one of them is right. For Taiwan to be a neighbor it would have to cease being Chinese, which it has never done. Taiwan is still officially “The Republic of China.”
Taiwan continues to keep the name because it mustn't give China a cassus belli to invade. Essentially, by keeping their name, they show their support for a "one china policy" and keep the door open to peaceful reunification. If Taiwan decided to formally be a separate thing, the PRC would no longer be able to "peacefully reunify with a rebellious province," and would be much likelier to invade.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-passport-idUSKBN25T0JA/
(I don't care for Reuters, but the facts are easily verifiable elsewhere)
The PRC got pissy when Taiwan changed its passports to read "TAIWAN" in big letters and have "Republic of China" in small letters. What purpose would they have in being mad about a name change on a foreign nation's passport (particularly as it de-emphasizes the "China" bit)?
Furthermore, if you look into history, Taiwan got rid of its claims to "all of China" decades ago
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/09/10/167505
In Europe there are two states, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, coexisting just fine (there's also Switzerland, no government of which ever pretended to be the unifying center of Germany).
That's just a counterexample to shoot down your bullshit without many words.
I like seeing other sides like this.
Feels like posts like yours would be removed on reddit because of how infested that site is with propagandists just supporting their agenda.